Dale Carnegie Quotes

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

When you talk, you only talk about something that you already know. But when you listen, you can learn something you don’t know.

In a conversation, keep in mind that you're more interested in what you have to say than anyone else is.

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.

Be slow to speak, and only after having first listened quietly, so that you may understand the meaning, leanings, and wishes of those who do speak. Thus you will better know when to speak and when to be silent.

I hate people.

Effective listening is something that can absolutely be learned and mastered. Even if you find attentive listening difficult and, in certain situations, boring or unpleasant, that doesn't mean you can't do it. You just have to know what to work on.

I taught myself to tune in to another person's wavelength, figure out what they were looking for, and try to project that thing back at them.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I've had a lot of experience with that.

Keep this question in mind: 'What would I think of this if I exchanged places with the other person?' It paves the way to more successful action.

People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.

People that don't talk are constipated. I'm sorry, but if you can't communicate, what do you have? You have nothing.

I think I am a pretty good at understanding each character of each person I meet.

My problem is that I love talking to people. I remember working in a call centre in Dalston and I'd end up having these long chats with old women.

Working with different people anyway is like life and meeting different people... as long as you can be empathetic, you can take a bit of them on and see what you can do to help their process. That said, my relationship with Woody Allen was trying to hang on his every word so that I could tell everybody what he said afterwards. But certainly, he was a very good example of somebody who you didn't hear talk above a very low volume for the entire time he was on-set.

I believe I know why it is satisfying to me to hear someone. When I can really hear someone, it puts me in touch with him; it enriches my life. It is through hearing people that I have learned all that I know about individuals, about personality, about interpersonal relationships.

Understanding people certainly impacts your ability to communicate with others.

I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior.

One of the other things I think that I've been able to do in my life, is to listen well.

Listen more than you talk.

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

Whoever claims to understand another person completely, is either entirely ignorant of himself, or else has a nature so small that he can measure it easily, and supposes it to be the standard of every other nature.

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.